(12-07-2019, 01:24 PM)Caldrac Wrote: This team is in a good spot right now. Hopefully Khan doesn't botch the next hiring. I am going to assume Marrone and Coughlin are out of here after all of the nonsense that's been reported between the two. Seems like a chasm between them. Not sure where this will leave Caldwell but there shouldn't be any legitimate rush to add a QB in 2020 when they can focus on getting quite a few things patched up along the trenches and back end of the defense. Unless Burrow falls to our first pick in RD1 or Tagovailoa slips to us in RD2 there's no reason to pull the trigger on a QB in 2020.

You're on the hook with Foles contract in 2020 no matter what you do. And unless Minshew completely implodes with these next four games he's really earned the right to compete for the job again during training camp next summer. We'll just end up like the Redskins & Dolphins in this case. No thanks. Just patch some holes up, let these two guys compete under new leadership and if they stink it up? They stink it up.

2021 gives you a shot at two promising prospects with broader skill sets and less questions regarding their physical builds and durability between Fields and Lawrence. Remember what happened last time they rushed a decision at QB? It was in 2003. It ended up doing three things that embarrassed the [BLEEP] out of us in the NFL.

1. You gave Brunell away to the Redskins for practically nothing and he ended up leading them to the play-off's, clearly indicating he had at least one more good year in the tank.

2. You hindered Garrard's growth who showed flashes here and there with Brunell being out.

3. Leftwich had NO business being drafted that highly at that time. His mechanics were AWFUL. He had a cannon for an arm but the accuracy of a blind man throwing darts. He never had a single season here where he completed 60% of his passes.

2004's class comes around and you missed out on NFL royalty in Eli Manning, the next great Gunslinger in Philip Rivers & Big Ben who only showed everybody as a rookie that he was the real deal and could make things happen with his mobility. They set us back for 15 years with that decision. Passing up on Suggs in the process of rushing for Leftwich. Wish I could have punched Shaq Harris in his face for that one.

I was never a fan of Garrard at all. I couldn't wait until he was gone. People tried to make something out of him that wasn't there. As far as Leftwich, you're right he had a cannon. I liked his accuracy as well, but he had absolutely no touch on his passes, what so ever. He tried to rocket everything. Even screen passes were launched as hard as he could. He nearly broke the fingers of his receivers and that resulted in a lot of drops. He just didn't know how to take something off his passes on short throws. Add that to his overly long and slow delivery and it just didn't work.

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